Free Web NovelChapter 294: Chapter 294 Time to Pick a Side_1
At that moment, Annie Drake was sitting on a bench in the core area’s playground, frowning as she questioned the two people from Cell No. 6, "What’s going on?"
"This..." Standing next to the bench, Anna and Katherine looked at each other, both clueless.
Since the afternoon, they had noticed that the dangerous inmates they had specifically informed about the jailbreak had been taken away one by one, never to return.
Just as they had begun to get some air on the playground, the guards also took away the most powerful lich among the inmates they had persuaded yesterday.
All the inmates they had approached were "dealt with" within a day, and no matter how you looked at it, this was...
"Do you even need to think about it? There’s definitely a mole," said a prisoner in a red uniform, approaching the bench and speaking to them.
"A mole?" The three of them turned their heads at the same time.
Standing there was none other than Ophelia Callado, the vampire prince who had "accepted" their persuasion yesterday.
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The three’s silence lasted for about five seconds before Annie was the first to break it, "Why is it that only you weren’t taken away?"
"Who knows?" Ophelia shrugged her shoulders.
"It’s you! You’re the mole!!" Katherine snapped back to reality.
"Have you lost your mind!?" Anna shouted out subconsciously.
"It was just a little insurance. I wasn’t sure if your jailbreak would be successful, and I couldn’t afford to be fooled again," Ophelia replied offhandedly with a hand on her hip, "I’m selling out here in advance; just in case your escape plan fails, I have a backup plan."
"You bastard... don’t you want to get out?" Annie glared at Ophelia.
"I’m the only red-level inmate you’ve got on side now. Are you still planning to give up on me?" Ophelia pointed indifferently at the two from Cell No. 6, "Then you can only lead out a bunch of small fry like them."
Anna and Katherine’s eyes twitched slightly.
Annie, however, jumped up from the bench on the spot, pointing at Ophelia’s nose and cursing, "Fuck, there’s not a single good one among you vampires!"
Being betrayed by the vampire before her reminded her bitterly of how her pirate crew had been wiped out at the hands of three high-rank vampires.
Then staring down the opponent, Annie suddenly realized something.
"You really look like that bastard..." she muttered subconsciously.
The vampire before her bore a resemblance to the male vampire who had beaten her up and captured her on the pirate ship back then.
However, she didn’t think too deeply about it; she just felt her disgust for the vampire before her deepen a bit more. freewebnøvel.com
"What did you say?" Ophelia, unaware of the lead-up to the other’s imprisonment, didn’t understand.
A sharp, piercing whistle suddenly broke out, interrupting the standoff on this side.
"What are you lot doing there!?" the prison guard on duty noticed there seemed to be a dispute here and issued a warning.
At the same time, the prison guards in the nearby sentry posts also aimed their shotguns this way.
Annie glanced in the direction of the guards and lowered her voice, "Disappear from my sight, don’t show your face around me again."
"Good luck, if your prison break fails, I’ll be counting on capturing you to claim my achievements," Ophelia said, turning away unconcerned.
In that moment, she truly felt the pleasure of deliberately sabotaging someone else’s plans and enjoying the sight of their clenched teeth in frustration—no wonder Aiden never tired of catching escapees and punishing disobedient prisoners.
Once the source of Aiden’s joy, she finally experienced his pleasure through this role reversal.
Annie sat back down on the bench with a dark face.
Having been manipulated, her mood obviously wasn’t good, but fortunately, the prison break plan itself was not greatly affected.
If that was the case, there was no need to rely on these useless prisoners any longer. During the escape, they would destroy the prison as much as possible and steal anything valuable—that was the core essence of their pirate work.
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That evening, Aiden sat in the conference room, at the round table, giving instructions to the wardens of various sections and heads of several departments.
"...Now that there are no issues, the plan is set. Sections one, two, and three shouldn’t present a problem. The key area is the core section, which is the main target for the prison breakers." Aiden surveyed the room, "Remember, these are extraordinary times, everyone must stay at their posts, that is all. Now, the wardens of the common areas should go and inform the prisoners... As for the core section, I will handle it personally. Flandre, Veronica, let’s go."
The wardens and staff of the common sections stood up and left, Flandre and Veronica remained until Aiden rose and walked to the door of the conference room before they followed closely behind.
The three came to the core section. When the door opened, Aiden entered the corridor but did not proceed to patrol as usual. ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
Veronica knocked on the iron door of the duty room with a metal bar, then shouted, "The warden has something to say, no interruptions, otherwise you’ll be put in solitary confinement immediately! Now, everyone to the front of your cells!! Immediately!!"
The authoritative voice echoed in the hallway, alerting the prisoners that something was amiss, and they all moved to the front of their cells without any of them daring to curse out loud this time.
The only prisoners who hardly moved were Halo, who as usual, sat in his cell in a daze, and Annie Drake, still sitting upright on her bed.
"Good evening, ladies. Perhaps some of you are already aware that the Empire’s notorious Red Shark Pirate Group is planning to raid this prison tomorrow to free someone, they have declared that the time is tomorrow. Therefore, we are planning to suspend work for one day to properly welcome our ’esteemed guests.’ I am preparing, along with them, to play a little ’game’ with you all."
The prisoners looked at each other in confusion.
Aiden ignored the prisoners’ bewildered reactions and continued, "We have taken defensive measures for tomorrow. Once the prison breakers enter the core section, we will then encircle them. Some cell doors might be open during the operation. Any inmate choosing to leave their cell without orders will be treated as attempting escape. I hope you all stay in your cells and wait for me to handle the situation. I hope no one makes a decision they’ll regret."
"What... does that mean?" a prisoner muttered under his breath.
"Simply put, tomorrow you can choose your side, but if you decide to side with the breakers, take that opportunity to escape..." Aiden said with a smile, "You will bear the consequences."
Annie scoffed to herself while sitting on the edge of her bed, "Hmph, knows he can’t handle the escape tactics so he tries to bluff everyone with such cryptic talk?"
The power of the Divine Artifact in her father’s hand was absolutely impossible to decipher!
